NCAA Tournament March Madness

#258 Radford

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Radford’s placement as a team that needs to win its conference tournament follows naturally from how the résumé reads: the season’s best moments are wins over conference peers and a nonconference victory against Western Illinois and they picked up solid road victories at Charleston Southern and Presbyterian, but those positives are swamped by ugly setbacks away from home and on neutral floors. Games at North Carolina, South Carolina and SMU turned into tough lessons and neutral-site showings versus Wright State and Cleveland State did not add the kind of signature win the committee looks for, and narrow defeats at Winthrop and at UNC Asheville underline a troubling inability to close out résumé-building opportunities on the road. With the only notable successes coming against familiar league foes and no clear quality wins outside the conference, the most realistic path to the NCAA field is to secure the automatic bid in the conference tournament where familiar opponents like High Point, Longwood and Gardner-Webb offer a chance to rewrite the narrative.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3W Illinois364W80-75
11/11@North Carolina29L89-74
11/15(N)Wright St147L92-59
11/16(N)Cleveland St323L87-82
11/18@South Carolina96L87-58
11/21UNC Wilmington102L81-73
11/24@SMU43L89-72
12/3Southern Miss221L82-75
12/7St Francis PA354W89-56
12/14Coppin St363W107-77
12/18@William & Mary135L96-83
12/21VMI360W97-90
12/31@SC Upstate300W76-69
1/7Presbyterian274W80-61
1/10UNC Asheville252L91-72
1/14@Gardner Webb361W89-80
1/17Longwood272W85-83
1/21@Winthrop144L76-75
1/23High Point93L93-83
1/29@Charleston So241W84-75
1/31@Presbyterian274W93-84
2/4Winthrop144L80-78
2/7@High Point93L86-77
2/14Charleston So241W90-80
2/19Gardner Webb361W82-70
2/21@UNC Asheville252L74-73
2/26SC Upstate300W71-59
2/28@Longwood272L90-74
3/6(N)Presbyterian274L91-85